Why so many candidates for the Holy Cross Energy Board of Directors?
Unhappiness can turn out candidates. But that doesn’t seem to explain this year’s bumper crop of candidates for Holy Cross Energy’s board. Could it be success?
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Something Colorado can crow about
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis continued his race-to-the-top tour with utilities, this time commending Black Hills Energy for its carbon reduction goals for 2030.
How Holy Cross Energy intends to deepen penetration of renewables
A pilot program of six home batteries represents an effort by Holy Cross Energy to better contour demands around supply as it moves toward 80% renewables.
Making steel with solar energy
Construction of the nation’s largest behind-the-meter solar project will begin in October after steel mill expansion in Colorado approved. The 240-megawatt solar farm will supply 90% of steel mill’s energy.
Why flexibility matters to this utility
The decision by the Colorado city of Fountain to get with a new wholesale supplier says an awful lot about the rapidly evolving story of electrical generation. Electricity is rapidly getting cheaper and cleaner.
The greening roofs of Denver
Denver voters in 2017 approved the green roof initiative. Now, the results are showing up not only on roofs, but in other parts of the city’s new buildings.
Driving the shift to renewables
Legislative renewable energy mandates came first, but lower costs and now sweeping statewide economy decarbonization goals have pushed the pivot in electrical generation.
Two Colorado cooperatives ask PUC to referee disputes
Two electrical cooperatives asked the Colorado PUC this week to referee their disputes with Tri-State, reflecting growing tensions about the shift from carbon to renewables by wholesale supplier.
Wind will speed Holy Cross Energy to 70% renewable goal
Colorado’s Holy Cross Energy will hit its 70% renewable energy goal almost a decade early of its goal, and now it has started talking about what it will take to get to 80% and even higher.
Growing energy interest reflected in electrical co-op elections
Four candidates vied for one position on the Holy Cross Energy board of directors this year. This and other contested director positions reflect the growing interest in the energy transition in rural Colorado.
How electric cars may transform the grid in Colorado
Holy Cross Energy has offered incentives for homeowners in the Aspen-Vail-Glenwood Springs area to install EV chargers at homes. It’s the first step in the rethinking of the grid, with evs potentially playing a role in storage of renewable energy.
Investors put $130 million into Guzman Energy
Two Colroado investors have put $130 million into Guzman Energy, which has made renewable energy central to its bid to become an energy supplier for electrical co-ops and municipal providers in the Rocky Mountains and beyond.
Aspen’s renewable bet pays off
In the 1990s, when Aspen Electric began investing in renewable energy, others were skeptical. It’s been at 100 percent renewables for several years, and now the costs are dropping. Residential electric rates in Aspen are already among the lowest in Colorado.
Will co-ops in southwestern Colorado stay with Tri-State?
Tri-State Generation & Transmission boasts of having the most solar generation of any G&T in the United States. But whether it’s shifting to renewables adn allow enough local generation has become a central issue with several of the 43 member cooperatives.
Why can’t this California biomass plant get off the ground
California’s Tahoe Basin has lots of dead wood. Why can’t it be burned to generate electricity? A biomass plant proposed near Squaw Valley stumbles yet again. Meanwhile, a goal for 100 percent renewables for Squaw Valley and maybe a microgrid, too.